#greedy

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it. ↗

— Donna Leon

#anyone #around #best #better #dishonest

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#books #friends #greedy #life #loneliness

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#bad #bad character #believed #character #go

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#greedy #thing #you

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. ↗

— Alan Alda

#deliver #doing #even #greedy #hard

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy. ↗

— Marian Anderson

#gift #given #god #grace #greedy

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#does #dream #end #fat #greedy

There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy. ↗

— Beck

#entire #gave #get #greedy #hit

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#extremely #greedy #i #lost #moral